Succinctly put. Decent people lulled into lies so they can struggle on to make ends meet, or escape responsibility. Bad faith wins with gullible consumerism. We've been conditioned, conquered. But it's not "over". A painful awakening is underway, led by angry, miffed philosophers who thought the same. Deep virtue and moral truth rise slowly to the existential threat. Minneapolis -- and a thousand other places -- show the way. They take us steeply uphill on a rocky path consoled by kind hearts, gutsy kindness, rare maturity. The ultimate guardrail shows itself to require the kind of life unperturbed by the requirements of overcoming 10,000 years of capitulation. The salt of the earth tends the ground, takes its lumps, listens to the forever wisdom so cleverly forgotten.
Great job, Mike. Coincidentally, or maybe not so coincidentally, John B. Judis has an almost identical take in Persuasion called What Hegel Knew About Trump-different premise, same exact conclusion. And if by some miracle we escape perdition, and this national/international nightmare finally ends, what's left of the American people should destroy every property with the foul name of 'Trump' affixed to it brick by brick, the same way the French people once destroyed the Bastille. Then we will all salt the ground, and pray...
Yes. I think it is hard to believe in deadlines when the regime always moves the goal post. Those who want to play with them - as it is profitable for them - before the scream NO NO I did mot mean that.
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I wrote a note about how the regimes rules for its population are the same a a dystopian childhood.
I highly recommend Diary of a Man in Despair. It is a journal kept by a German intellectual from 1932-1945 and it changed me to read it. If I didn't know better I would have thought it was written about our current times. Like then the capital class and the journalists went along to get what they could out of it and the moderates in power refused to see what was happening. How he describes the general populace and the fever of nationalism was terrifying based on how toxic our discourse is.
Succinctly put. Decent people lulled into lies so they can struggle on to make ends meet, or escape responsibility. Bad faith wins with gullible consumerism. We've been conditioned, conquered. But it's not "over". A painful awakening is underway, led by angry, miffed philosophers who thought the same. Deep virtue and moral truth rise slowly to the existential threat. Minneapolis -- and a thousand other places -- show the way. They take us steeply uphill on a rocky path consoled by kind hearts, gutsy kindness, rare maturity. The ultimate guardrail shows itself to require the kind of life unperturbed by the requirements of overcoming 10,000 years of capitulation. The salt of the earth tends the ground, takes its lumps, listens to the forever wisdom so cleverly forgotten.
Brilliant piece, Mike. One of your best. So succinct. It will provide clarity to future historians.
Great job, Mike. Coincidentally, or maybe not so coincidentally, John B. Judis has an almost identical take in Persuasion called What Hegel Knew About Trump-different premise, same exact conclusion. And if by some miracle we escape perdition, and this national/international nightmare finally ends, what's left of the American people should destroy every property with the foul name of 'Trump' affixed to it brick by brick, the same way the French people once destroyed the Bastille. Then we will all salt the ground, and pray...
Yes. I think it is hard to believe in deadlines when the regime always moves the goal post. Those who want to play with them - as it is profitable for them - before the scream NO NO I did mot mean that.
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I wrote a note about how the regimes rules for its population are the same a a dystopian childhood.
Sobering.
I highly recommend Diary of a Man in Despair. It is a journal kept by a German intellectual from 1932-1945 and it changed me to read it. If I didn't know better I would have thought it was written about our current times. Like then the capital class and the journalists went along to get what they could out of it and the moderates in power refused to see what was happening. How he describes the general populace and the fever of nationalism was terrifying based on how toxic our discourse is.